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11/19 Pelagic Webinar: Pinch me! …. Did We Just Discover a New Species?!

On November 19 at 7PM please join us to hear from Alvaro Jaramillo, about the discovery of new species of seabirds.

Seabirds are some of the most common and widespread species of birds in the world. On the other hand, many of them breed on distant islands, visiting their colonies at night, often in treacherous waters. This is why many seabirds are so little known even today. While we learn more and more about all sorts of isolated tropical birds, seabirds reveal their mysteries more slowly and painstakingly.

One of the most abundant seabirds, one that is found on all oceans, is the Wilson’s Storm-Petrel. Yet it is not what it seems. We may have underestimated what the old sailors called “Mother Carey’s Chickens.” A bird so well known to mariners that their walking-on-water behavior gave the name to all petrels (after St. Peter!), might not be so well known at all.

Alvaro has been lucky to be involved in amazing discoveries of new nesting grounds, and populations, as well as some seemingly crazy goings on with Wilson’s Storm Petrels. Multiple publications scientists have described the new Pincoya Storm-Petrel and the Andean Storm-Petrel. Nesting grounds of some of these birds are now being located, and this might be just the start.

Come to hear stories about unraveling the multiple mysteries of New World storm-petrels.

About the Presenter

Alvaro Jaramillo, is the owner of the international birding tour company Alvaro’s Adventures. He was born in Chile but began birding in Toronto as a teenager. He was trained in ecology and evolution studying co-evolution in cowbirds. That work culminated in his book New World Blackbirds – The Icterids.

Research forays and backpacking trips introduced Alvaro to the riches of the Neotropics, where he has traveled extensively. He is the author of the Birds of Chile, an authoritative yet portable field guide to Chile’s birds. He is author of a major New World sparrow chapter for HBW (now Birds of the World), and the ABA Field Guide Birds of California. He received the Eisenmann Medal from the Linnaean Society of New York, awarded occasionally for excellence in ornithology and encouragement of the amateur.

Alvaro organizes and leads international birding tours as well as a full schedule of pelagic trips in central California. Recently, he started Birding Your Best Life (www.birdingyourbestlife) a membership community relating to birding and enjoying birds. Along with Mollee Brown and George Armistead, he co-hosts the popular podcast Life List: A Birding Podcast. Alvaro lives with his family in Picton, Ontario – while not a bird chaser, Alvaro is super keen on his yard list!

To Register

This webinar is open to all.

To register with Zoom to join the webinar please use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P0vI8VahQUeu4Y2FxZQ_VQ

For More Information

For more information contact info@brooklinebirdclub.org.

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